Mike Pompeo

Mike Pompeo (30 December 1963-) was a member of the US House of Representatives (R) from Kansas' 4th congressional district from 3 January 2011, succeeding Todd Tiahrt.

Biography
Mike Pompeo was born in Orange, California on 30 December 1963, and he served in the US Army's US 4th Infantry Division from 1986 to 1991, serving his last tour in the Gulf War. Pompeo received his juris doctor from Harvard Law School, and he founded a private security company and an oilfield equipment company in Kansas. In 2011, he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a Republican Party congressman, receiving $80,000 from the Koch Brothers. On 18 November 2016, Donald Trump nominated Pompeo to serve as the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency under his administration but, on 12 January 2017, Pompeo joined Rex Tillerson and Jeff Sessions in criticizing Trump's policies, claiming that Russia had, indeed, taken part in cyberattacks against the United States during the 2016 presidential election; he sided with the intelligence community against Trump.